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- Occupation
- Visual and Performing Artist
- Bio
- Seth Eisen’s work is a hybrid of visual art and live performance investigating the traditions of Queer history, Queer space and Queer culture. Eisen performed with Butoh companies Harupin–Ha and Ink Boat (1994-1999) and with Keith Hennessy and Circo Zero (2000-2010). In 1994 he developed the company Eye Zen Art as an umbrella for curating exhibits, producing performance, visual art projects and installations. Seth’s solo show, Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas, sold out two San Francisco runs. A current project, Buffet Flats: Queering Slow Food, is a traveling dinner-salon combining queer performance, a live cooking show and ecology talks at Bay Area homes and gardens.
Eye Zen Art investigates the transgressive traditions of Queer history, Queer space and Queer culture. Through the expansion of LGBTQ self-awareness our work fosters the evolution of more inclusive conceptions of gender identities and sexual preferences. By harnessing and reclaiming the spirit, stories and traditions of historic and contemporary Queer culture, Eye Zen Arts creates hybrid works that combine live performance and visual media that broaden human perspectives and promote social change.
- Website
- http://www.eyezen.org
Seth Eisen's Blog
Homo File, a new perormance by Seth Eisen about Samuel Steward, college professor, tattoo artist, and sexual rebel
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:27am 0 Comments 0 Likes
CounterPULSE artist in residence, Seth Eisen writes and directs an ensemble of multidisciplinary performers/artists/collaborators in his new Queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1909-1993).
Steward was a college professor, a prolific author of homoerotic fiction, an influential tattoo artist, and Queer sexual maverick who lived his last 3 decades in the Bay Area. His artistic development and Queer self-awareness…
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